windswept
pronunciation
How to pronounce windswept in British English:
UK [ˈwɪndswept]
How to pronounce windswept in American English:
US [ˈwɪndˌswɛpt]
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- Adjective:
- open to or swept by wind
Word Origin
- windswept (adj.)
- 1932, originally of hair, from wind (n.1) + past participle of sweep (v.).
Example
- 1. Windswept dunes and waving grasses border the atlantic ocean .
- 2. They camped on a windswept kansas divide .
- 3. Next to a crackling log fire in a windswept chalet ?
- 4. She meets us in her sparse office , a grim , soviet-style building set on a windswept plain .
- 5. The guests can no longer deny that something terrible is afoot , and the windswept island begins to seem like a prison .